More than 1,300 Ugandan Students Protest Ban on Wearing of mini-skirts and Tight Trousers.

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More than
1,300 students of Aduku Secondary School, Apac District, have been sent home
following a violent strike which resulted into the destruction of school
property worth about Shs100 million.

School
authorities said the last Saturday night strike was sparked off by a ban on
wearing of mini-skirts and tight trousers.

Last
week, the school administration confiscated all mini-skirts and tight trousers,
a move which reportedly annoyed the students. Aduku SS is an Anglican-founded
mixed O and A-level boarding school.

Before
the strike, the students had also claimed that they were not comfortable with
having porridge for breakfast early in the morning at 6am, the time when they
should still be enjoying their sleep.

The
headmaster, Mr Patrick Okwir Angulo, said last term, they issued a circular to
all parents warning that mini-skirts and tight trousers would not be allowed in
school. This was after it was realised that girls cut their long skirts and saw
them into mini-skirts. Boys were also reducing the sise of their normal
trousers making them tight.

"During
the opening of this term, teachers were deployed at the school gate to check
the kind of uniforms students had come with," Mr Okwir told Daily Monitor
in a telephone interview on Sunday evening.

Mini-skirts
and tight trousers were confiscated and cut into pieces. But those that could
be resized were kept in the school store and will be given back to the owners
at the end of the term.

The
headmaster said that was a way of instilling discipline in the students and
added that the wearing of non uniforms at school has been banned.

The
culprits

But
a group of about 10 students from Senior Three allegedly mobilised and
spearheaded the strike last Saturday. They reportedly pulled down a wall fence
measuring 307 metres, which they say limited their movement outside the school.